Paleosols
Subtitle: their recognition and interpretation
By: V. Paul Wright, editor.
Contributors: Wright, V. Paul, 1953-
Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Oxford; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Paleopedology.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The fossil record of soils / by G.J. Retallack; title: Pedogenic Calcretes in the Old Red Sandstone facies (late Silurian, early Carboniferous) of the Anglo-Welsh area, southern Britain / J.R.L. Allen; title: Paleosols containing an albic horizon / C.J. Percival; title: The calcareous paleosols of the basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic), southern England / Jane E. Francis; title: Tectonic control on alluvial sedimentation as revealed by an ancient catena in the Capella Formation (Eocene) of northern Spain / Christopher D. Atkinson; title: Paleosols and time resolution in alluvial stratigraphy / Mary J. Kraus, Thomas M. Bown; title: Recognition of paleosols in Quaternary periglacial and volcanic environments in New Zealand / I.B. Campbell; title: Pre-Flandrian Quarternary soils and pedogenic processes in Britain / R.A. Kemp; title: Paleosols in archaeology / Richard I. Macphail.